Disrespect for the office of the Presidency

[bitterlyclingin]

The insults come when the person holding the office defecates on everything surrounding the office.

'This is the first time I've ever been proud of my country"

"The Cambridge Police acted stupidly!"

"If you own a succesful business you didn't build that!"

"If I had a son he would've looked like that!" (And been a juvenile deliquent, drug abusing, thug just like Trayvon?"

Air Force One suddenly becoming 'Choomwagon One'

Then you have Comrade C Sucker's total disrepect and disregard for any and all laws he doesn't approve of. Americans have always had a healthy disdain for any leader who self elevates himself to the level of dictator, ruling by whim and fiat as Comrade Barack has chosen to do. When you start acting like Adolph Hitler, you're gonna get the same response as Hitler elicited, "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" Obama could've recognized the significance of all Americans electing him to the presidency and carry out his presidency as president of all Americans with a light hand instead of the mail fisted gloved hand he has chosen to use, instead he just assumed it was a golden opportunity for him and his kind to steal the whole god damned store instead of simply shoplifting a camera or two from the shelves.

Just like Mayor 'Filthy' Filner in San Diego, you abuse the office and no one wants you there after a while, except for the head of San Diego County's Democratic Party "We have to overlook his indiscretions because its been such a long time since we've had a progressive in that office." Progressive? Some of the last historical figures to grope as many females as Mayor Bob were 'Slick Willie" Clinton and Attila the Hun.

 

[OriginalShroom]

Anyone remember the routine insults the Left heaped on Bush? The Office of the President is fair game for ridicule now and forever more. That is now part of the job description.

Well yeah..I can remember it.

It was generally in the public space..not in the halls of congress to his face by elected officials.

The main problem with you folks is that not only do you hate the United States government, you want to destroy it.

I seem to remember a certain Junior Senator proclaiming that President G.W. Bush wasn't Patriotic.

BTW, it wasn't a Republican that claimed they were going to "Fundamentally Transforming" the United States. You don't Fundamentally transform something you like.

 

[L.K.Eder]

Barack Obama has been given a Free Pass. The American Media is a corrupt disgrace. No other President in history has received the Free Pass this current President has. I'll have to let you decide for yourself why that is. Barack Obama and his followers are the last people on Earth who should be whining about being mistreated. He's gotten away with the most heinous crimes against the People. He has not been held to the same standards past Presidents have. So please spare us all the self righteous indignation. He's had it made like no other has. So stop the whining. No one's buying it.

I absolutely could not agree more. We have (literally) witnessed the death of journalism in this country. With prior administrations, the media spent every waking hour digging. Hunting. Searching. For one thing that they could use AGAINST the prior administration.

Barry has the media in his back pocket. They worship him. They adore him. They REFUSE to print or broadcast ANYTHING that might be construed as "bad" for this clown of a president.

Just like the media in Nazi Germany.

yeah, the US media was really on the ball regarding the iraq invasion.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

Has nothing to do with the office...everything to do with the moron occupying it.

Completely missing the point

Nope. NAILING the point.

I cannot abide President Obama.

Nevertheless, if I were seated in a room, I'd stand up when he entered.

If I had cause to address him, face to face, I would call him "Mr. President."

But that doesn't mean I respect him.

It means ONLY that I respect the Office HE happens to presently hold.

 

[OriginalShroom]

Has nothing to do with the office...everything to do with the moron occupying it.

Completely missing the point

Nope. NAILING the point.

I cannot abide President Obama.

Nevertheless, if I were seated in a room, I'd stand up when he entered.

If I had cause to address him, face to face, I would call him "Mr. President."

But that doesn't mean I respect him.

It means ONLY that I respect the Office HE happens to presently hold.

I couldn't.

I would walk out of the room without saying a thing. If I were to say something, I would be, most likely, get arrested by the Secret Service.

 

[Lovebears65]

Building off of another thread...

1. The birther fiasco (2009-2011). No evidence. No proof. No documentation. But the story traveled on for years. Yes, Hawaii is part of the United States of America.

2. “You lie” (Sept. 2009). That any individual — no less a member of Congress watching a U.S. President during a joint session on live national television — is so lacking in self control that this moment was made possible is incredible — even in an age of incivility. Remember this happened only nine months into Obama’s presidency and is another “we can’t remember that ever happening ever before” moment. Close your eyes and pretend Rep. Maxine Waters was Wilson doing this to President Bush and image the reaction.

3. Signs of the Tea Party (July 2010) and Naked Racism (April 2011). Anyone remember California GOP official Marilyn Davenport’s racist e-mail? Did she ever resign for that? I remember all the criticism of the NAACP – particularly from Black Republicans — for their “Tea Party resolution” of 2010. Where was that indignation regarding what can be viewed in this video? Click here.
4. Donald “unchecked ego” Trump inflames birther fiasco, media assists (April 2011). The mouth of Donald Trump is a powerful thing when joined with a 24-hour cable news cycle desperate for viewers. That news organizations invited Trump on the air unchallenged with zero proof of what he was saying speaks volumes on the state of journalism. That Trump was completely comfortable demanding that a U.S. President “show him his papers” displays a superiority complex that exists among those who can’t accept someone they view as “lesser” in a position of power over them.

4. Deadbeat dad and probable one-termer thinks his presence before the President actually matters and needs to tell everyone (Sept 2011). The disrespect isn’t that probable one term Congressman Joe Walsh (R-IL) wouldn’t attend the President’s Sept. 8 speech. The disrespect is that Rep. Walsh actually believed that everyone knowing he wasn’t attending was important. That he needed to announce he would not attend on national television, as if anyone cared, was yet another delusional superiority episode. That proudly showing public disrespect towards the President is a winning strategy in some political circles reveals a lot.

5. Newt Gingrich’s “Kenyan anti-colonial behavior” comment (Sept 2010). Even Washington Post columnist and conservative thinker George Will slammed this attempt to define the President as “foreign.” Never mind the facts: President Obama wasn’t reared by his father in Kenya with whom he spent only a month of his 50 years on this earth. The strategy to define the President as a “foreign” or “alien” being was started by Sarah Palin in 2008.

6. One of the underlying premises of disrespect towards the President is that he can be ordered around and dictated to like he’s Tipi the laundry boy. The presumption that a U.S. President can be ordered around is a new phenomenon that appears to have gotten underway around January 2009. From big mouth Congressmen to millionaires with nothing to do, you name it — they all inherently believe they can order President Obama around. At least Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an actual leader of something. Regardless, read this and ask yourself if you think this would have happened to Presidents Bush, Reagan or Clinton.

7. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer puts her finger in the President’s face (January 2012). The photo speaks for itself. Of course there are strong political disagreements between President Obama and Gov. Brewer. But is it just possible there was a better time and place for this conversation? Brewer said she felt “a little threatened” by President Obama. Please.

8. GOP House, prompted by Tea Party — refuses to raise debt ceiling (Aug 2011). Sounds like this was just hardball politics right? Let’s review the facts: The debt ceiling had been raised 69 times since 1962 without incident. Seven times during Bush II and 18 times during Reagan. Suddenly, with President Obama, a shiny new precedent is set with regard to raising the debt ceiling. Another never before seen incident is born.

9. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Publicly Announces His Top Political Priority (Dec 2010). McConnell wants the President out of office? No news there, but, wait, there’s more to it. “Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term,” Sen. McConnell told the Heritage Foundation. Of course the Senate Republican Leader doesn’t want the President to be re-elected. But what’s with the public announcement? In July 2010 McConnell acknowledged his single most important political goal: President Obama being a one-term President. Again: In public and on national television.

10. Speaker Boehner refuses speech date request (September 2011). No it is not the end of the world. Of course, the White House intentionally wanted to step on a GOP debate that same night. But, this is yet another first in American history. Once again, no one can find another instance where a President of the United States requested a date to address Congress and was refused.

All indignant insults against the most prestigious office in the world. I guess some people weren't raised right.

Archie Hackney, WW2 veteran, refused to stay seated upon meeting the President. Thank you for your service Mr. Hackney.

Meet Archie Hackney | The Fifth Column

Wow you left wing had NO Problem to disrepect Bush at!! Love how when it is your guy it is bad

 

[whitehall]

You almost gotta laugh about the short memories of the left. They lynched effigies of president Bush. The left giggled when some nut case threw a shoe at him. Why do you have to remind lefties that Obama isn't king. He works for the citizens.

 

[Lovebears65]

Anyone remember the routine insults the Left heaped on Bush? The Office of the President is fair game for ridicule now and forever more. That is now part of the job description.

My cousin, way more liberal than I am, met Bush and shook his hand. I have no problem with people calling out Presidents on their policies. But when you emphasize middle names (Hussein), and claim that the President ordered the killing of Americans (Benghazi); then that's completely disrespectful.

HE may not have ordered it but he sure did nothing to help those men and that is FACT!!
And that my friend is why he is disrespected for it!! Those men pleaded for over 7 hours for help. He knew long before this was not a protest but a terrorist attack but did nothing to help them. In fact had the help stand down . Some did not listen and are either dead or told not to speak.. A man that was seriously hurt we did not know until 5 months after the attack when Hillary said something in the hearings One Benghazi Survivor Still In Hospital

 

[OriginalShroom]

It is strange how the left confuses dislike of Obama and his policies with dislike of the Office of the Presidency.

Perhaps it's because they had the two confused while President Reagan and the President G.H.W. Bush and President G. W. Bush were in office.

 

[Katzndogz]

Has nothing to do with the office...everything to do with the moron occupying it.

Completely missing the point

Nope. NAILING the point.

I cannot abide President Obama.

Nevertheless, if I were seated in a room, I'd stand up when he entered.

If I had cause to address him, face to face, I would call him "Mr. President."

But that doesn't mean I respect him.

It means ONLY that I respect the Office HE happens to presently hold.

If I was in a room and obama entered I would stand, and leave. I wouldn't shake his hand. I would not call him Mr. President, maybe Mr. Presidunce.

I would give him all the respect he deserves. He disgraces the office he holds and that disgrace does not deserve respect.

 

[KevinWestern]

Anyone remember the routine insults the Left heaped on Bush? The Office of the President is fair game for ridicule now and forever more. That is now part of the job description.

My cousin, way more liberal than I am, met Bush and shook his hand. I have no problem with people calling out Presidents on their policies. But when you emphasize middle names (Hussein), and claim that the President ordered the killing of Americans (Benghazi); then that's completely disrespectful.

Would there be a point that you would no longer shake the President's hand?

This is extreme example (not comparing the two), but if you were opposed to Hitler exterminating Jewish families and were asked to go to his office and shake his hand, would you do so just in order to avoid being disrespectful?

I think there's a line in the sand that people draw, and when Presidents like Bush and Obama go so far beyond that line (disrespecting some rather sacred and important institutions laid by our forefathers) I don't blame people for showing them a lack of respect.

They don't deserve any.

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[Duped]

Obama did not win, or deserve that most lofty office; he was exalted into it by masses of morons, and it is he who has disrespected his office. Without a teleprompter, he would not have had that oppertunity. There is a big difference between a leader, and an organizer. I never would have thought that a person could be put in that office by what he read; instead of by what he has done - duped again.

 

[L.K.Eder]

Obama did not win, or deserve that most lofty office; he was exalted into it by masses of morons, and it is he who has disrespected his office. Without a teleprompter, he would not have had that oppertunity. There is a big difference between a leader, and an organizer. I never would have thought that a person could be put in that office by what he read; instead of by what he has done - duped again.

a real american should be appointed by real americans instead of letting the unwashed masses decide.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

Completely missing the point

Nope. NAILING the point.

I cannot abide President Obama.

Nevertheless, if I were seated in a room, I'd stand up when he entered.

If I had cause to address him, face to face, I would call him "Mr. President."

But that doesn't mean I respect him.

It means ONLY that I respect the Office HE happens to presently hold.

If I was in a room and obama entered I would stand, and leave. I wouldn't shake his hand. I would not call him Mr. President, maybe Mr. Presidunce.

I would give him all the respect he deserves. He disgraces the office he holds and that disgrace does not deserve respect.

Bubba used the Oval Office to get a blow job from a fat young intern.

I think Bubba disgraced the Office a bit more than the merely inept socialist who currently infests the White House.

 

[MikeK]

My cousin, way more liberal than I am, met Bush and shook his hand. I have no problem with people calling out Presidents on their policies. But when you emphasize middle names (Hussein), and claim that the President ordered the killing of Americans (Benghazi); then that's completely disrespectful.

Why would your cousin want to shake hands with a man who did such harm to his country?

 

[IlarMeilyr]

My cousin, way more liberal than I am, met Bush and shook his hand. I have no problem with people calling out Presidents on their policies. But when you emphasize middle names (Hussein), and claim that the President ordered the killing of Americans (Benghazi); then that's completely disrespectful.

Why would your cousin want to shake hands with a man who did such harm to his country?

No no.

Not Obama.

President Bush.

Silly you.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Oy. How soon they forget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC1_-Et_yv0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTjNInBA7JQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTjNInBA7JQ

they sure quickly forget alright.I remember when Obama got elected,practically everywhere I went I heard people saying-Obama is going to have a major task ahead of him.

Bush has left him such a huge mess to clean up that he created its going to probably take Obama more than one term to clean up his mess.

Obama has made things even far worse than Bushwacker did that they quickly have forgotten how Bad a president Bush was while he was in office.


Obama has no respect for his office, the Constitution, nor the history of the United States.

Respect is earned, and he has not earned it.




That pretty much accurately describes EVERY president that has been in office the past 50 years.

 

[ShaklesOfBigGov]

Irrelevant to the point. Spare me the yammer.

Not really. He was pointing out that we OWN the presidency. Why then are we supposed to have some vaunted respect for the office let alone the person in it. Further, it is stated that we the people have the right to abolish it. That does not seem like we are supposed to have any respect for it in general.

Yeah really. The poster jumped in on an exchange that wasn't even his, which is why he doesn't understand what it is. The point he's making here is irrelevant to any of it; he's just trolling. The original point itself was settled way back.

Pogo you really don't have the slightest clue as to the respect for the "office" of the President of the United States. The "office" is owned by the PEOPLE (rightly said by FA_Q2) as the FOUNDERS gave very explicit details of the powers that are also "granted" by that office. I seriously doubt you know more about respect for the office than those who wrote its Constitution - you really are a thick headed idiot who needs to go back to school.

If the "office" deserves respect without question, then can you explain why the Founders granted the people the right to overthrow their OWN government and establish a new one? You really have no idea, do you.

 

[Katzndogz]

Are democrats still butt hurt that obama isn't worth anyone's respect?

They can whine about for another 26 pages and he will still be disrespected.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

This is the only salute this "president" should get.

which again,is what EVERY president that has served in office the last 50 years deserves as well since NONE of them have followed the constitution and are all mass murderers.